Summary of newspapers of the previous day –11. 3. 2009

State subsidizes ecological heating

The State Environment Fund will pay a part of costs for biomass-furnaces and for solar systems. Only by the month end people has a chance to get the subsidy for biomass-furnaces, for solar systems for all-year water heating and heating, and for heat pumps. Last March is a deadline for reception of applications for the mentioned subsidies from the State Environment Fund. The state will cover as much as a half of costs. “It is possible to file petitions in frame of the state program after termination of a given investment action and after payment of its costs.

Changes of carbon and nitrogen content in microbial biomass

In field tests in the Czech Republic a content of carbon and nitrogen in microbial biomass was compared within mono-cultural growing of silage corn and a turn of crop-plants. In a test with the monoculture following fertilizers were used: sulphate antimonite, carbamide and nitrate antimonite solution – UAN, UAN + straw, manure, slurry and a fallow land without fertilizer application. All plots were fertilized with a batch 120 kg/ha N. The experiment took place on land with content of total C 1,66 % and 0,23 % of total N with pH 6,6.

Farmers go in losses and in streetsAccording to the Food Chamber, CR agricultural and food policy is non-conceptual and too liberal. A president of the Food Chamber Miroslav Toman told it at Žofín forum devoted to problems of both the sectors. Therefore farmers will set out in streets to protest. The state, according to Toman, should help more to afflicted fields, for example by increasing of support of export or by adoption of a law on significant market power, regulating operation of trade chains.

Sale of bio-foods has increased by tens of percents

Bio-foods are still more and more popular in the Czech Republic, both among consumers and food firms. Market turnover, according to estimations of an agency Green Marketing, increased year-on-year last year by tens of percents. The year before last the Czech spent for bio-products about 1,3 billion crowns. Growing demand attract still more and more producers. “A number of bio-food producers increased by 67 percent last year in the country; most often they recruit in bread and pastry branch”, told Tomáš Václavík from the agency Green Marketing which devotes to bio-food market for a long time.